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- Detract : reduce or take away the worth or value of
- Unjot : remove jots? (notes)
- Derogate : detract from
- Abridge : shorten (a book, movie, speech, or other text) without losing the sense
- Curtail : reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on
- Digest : a compilation or summary of material or information
- Abate : lessen, reduce, or remove (especially a nuisance)
- Triage : pay immediate attention to particular priorities
- Terse : sparing in the use of words; abrupt
- UnPleonasm : the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g., see with one's eyes ), either as a fault of style or for emphasis
- Pithify : (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive
- Concise/Conciseifier - giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive
- Distill : to extract the essential elements of; refine
- Precisify : To make precise, to make more precise
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